Go Speed Racer

WOOT! Second Place

Anyone want to do something this weekend? Another Jade Spider run? Raid? Something villainous? Sound off if you do.

Season's Greetings!

The Ski Chalet is once again open! Rip your hair out trying to get the skiing badges! Click on presents! Sell candy canes for big bucks! The Winter Event is live!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all DBers (and friends) a very happy holiday and a joyous New Year! You've all been a very special part of my life so thank you!

And in closing, here are some ideas if you have someone you're having a tough time shopping for!

For Sunbathing on the Beach in Warburg
Forget the Chest Slider! He'll love you more in this!
DEBT BRIGADE! or I love Az! Eat your words in your favorite color!

Cmon Out and Play!

Big thanks to Azrhiaz for setting up a couple of great events, a PvP event in Warburg with Ex Libris from NCSoft and the Jade Spider TF, which is yet another great new content item for City of Heroes/Villains...I would do this TF again in a heartbeat.

The PvP event was great fun, and thanks to the help of good Empath (Generic Healer Guy!), the squishees stayed upright and laid the smack down.

I encourage all to join up for these, we have a lot of fun with them. I am looking at doing the Leviathan Strike Force for villains (lvl 25 min) and if someone wants a lowbie event on either side, I will be glad to help. Shout out if want something.

Eighteen, what a magical number!

Britney Blades takes on Dr. Vahzilok
NEWFLASH! An extra bonus of prestige was accidently awarded to live servers again today! Woot! We just got an EXTRA three million!!

First off a big congratulations to everyone! The SG Registrar tells me that after the prestige boost, Debt Brigade is #18 in the top 100 prestige earners. Great job to all! Please feel free to use this information to recruit new people (especially those who want to base raid!) The base padders will be removed this week. Captains still have the authority to kick them as needed!

I am very excited to tell you the base is being remodelled and once we hit the 750 PvP kills, we will be sitting VERY pretty! Baba and Mrs K were kind enough to come over and test some new weaponry yesterday. The Rikti Plasma cannon is nice, but its energy usage might be a bit steep since it's recharge is very slow. The repel field *might be useful, but color me disappointed it did not work at all like the force bubble does.

Hopefully our next raid will be nothing like the last one. Suffice it to say, it was a disaster. I thank Garl, Colder and Baba for coming out and trying vainly to protect our stuff. We just didn't have the numbers we normally do so we were outgunned big time. New raid will be scheduled in January! After the holidays!

The Jade Spider
Have you tried it? The new TF? If not, you're going to! This weekend! Saturday at 5pm pacific/8pm eastern! Cap, Deep, Violet and I tried our hand at it and we need reinforcements! So get out your heaviest hitters cause this one is a doozy!

Raid!

Today at 4pm pacific! Be there! :)

Any TF/SFs anyone wants to do? Baba had one he wanted to try OR we could so a flashback arc? We could try one with one of the special settings perhaps? Apparently, there are some badges associated with them.

Grats to Peace on hitting 50! Grats to the group for earning the Rikti Plasma Cannon!

Hot Blooded...check it and see...

The City of Heroes website has a link to an article by Massively.com covering the recent Q and A Az and Chica attended. I was throughly enjoying my read when suddenly I saw a pic in the article that I had to share with the SG.

Az, you didn't tell me they had CoX karaoke going on:



I am sooooo getting a lump of coal from you this year aren't I? :P:::

New Computer suggestions

The guy I get to work on my computer is paranoid about building me a new one. Mostly cuz he doesn't want me to yell at him if it doesn't work lol. He wants me to find out what a good motherboard and graphics cards would be for CoH. I looked on the forum but I'm not getting anything good either due to ignorance at what I'm reading or I'm not using the right search.
Any suggestions on a good system?

Dum Da Dum Dum

Well I11 may have finished me off. My mother board sockets won't support any of the newer Graphics cards that manufacturers are bothering to update. Just listen to these other happy asus customers.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20071017101957765&board_id=9&model=AX1650+Series&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Meet and Greet

I must confess I had more fun at the M&G than I had anticipated. This is probably in part due to the wonderful company I kept in the amazing, gorgeous, lovely, insane Chica Vaga!

We got there around 6:30pm and the registration line was out the door. Fortunately, the bar was close and adult beverages made our wait less taxing. We got to meet Lighthouse and ExLibris at this time. The following is a photo of them that someone on the boards took since mine did not turn out. (ExLibris and LH in the middle)

The night mainly consisted of mingling with fellow players, an "autograph" event with the developers, a preview of the new City Vault (searchable online database of players' information such as costume, slotting, powers, bio) and new costume sets. They also had a Q&A and a big raffle. Chica and I did not win anything, but they had gift bags for everyone so we were happy not to stumble back to the hotel room empty handed.
Myself and Manticore

Ghost Falcon finally moves from his spot in PI

Az puckers up with Sexy Jay

Az gets cozy with Positron

I think GW is gonna kill Chica in the next STF

Back Alley Brawler and Castle
We also went to the after-party for a bit with some of the devs and a ton of the players. I mostly talked about the state of PvP with people and drank Ex's Jagermeister. All in all, it was fun to meet up with people I'd known from in-game and on the boards, especially some of the Triumph Crew. They applauded very loudly when I mentioned I was from Triumph when I asked my question over the microphone of Positron. It was a riot. Fun times. Thanks so much to Chica for coming out and making it awesome!

Raiders Riotous Reunion Ruined...

...Really

From left: Mars Bringer of War, Scourge of the Isles, Brick Fist, Teknofreak, Death-Master

Last weekend we had an impromptu Air Pirate Strike Force, and as always, it is a lot of fun. Starting one is always interesting when you have people from outside the VG and then the fun just keeps coming. Unique map instances (well for villains anyways), a cool AV, and easy mishes. Looking to run it with my wife's new villain, Planty Girl, on Dec 9 say 3:00 EST/12:00 PST, unless anyone else needs a better time.